I would guess the new Intel Mac could have windows and Tiger both installed
in a dual boot setup. I think they're too new yet for people to have tried
it, not sure if any were sold yet since they're about 2 days after
announcement.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: mac running windows XP
I've got a couple of things to say here.
The Mac is over all less expensive than the pc. Since when did states
have so much money as to ignore this fact?
What will make the Mac more suseptable to attack is windows, not the
chip.
Employability is in the eye of the potential employer and if you stick to
your three majors, I see nothing standing in your way. So What, you get
a job that requires a pc, you use a pc. We're talking about getting you
outfitted for your education and none of us has a chrystal ball beyond
that not even MR. Clark.
Now, this bit about compatability I do not understand. I run a Mac on my
network along with pcs. We swap and view files across the network
written in word and text edit all the time. Word is just another flavor
like chocolate. If you like it, you eat it.
Actually, vo has been upgraded several times this year. Everytime the os
is upgraded which has happened at least three times including just
yesterday to my knowledge. Yep, vo is not a screen reader.
On the issue of suport, What does Mr. Clark do for a living? Why could
he not support the mac?
--
Jonnie Apple Seed
With his:
Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
On Jan 12, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Justin Harford wrote:
Hi guys
Could someone here do me a favor. I just got done with my meeting at the
department of rehabilitation, and they have flatly denied my request for
a mac. their points:
1. my converting to Mac would make me less employable since most of
employment revolves around windows.
2. Mac won't be able to exchange information with windows since it uses
different programs than microsoft office. They really asserted that Mac
wouldn't
be useful because Voice Over does not work with microsoft word.
3. Mr. Clark asserted that last year, Freedom Scientific made 2 upgrades
to Jaws, and that in 6 months, Voice Over has made none.
4. They think that depending on my major (presently to be either Law,
History, or Spanish), graduate programs may require special software only
usable
with windows. They brought up statistics as an example. If I were to go
into administration as a vocation, I would probably have to take
statistics classes.
5. Mr. Clark asserted that while at present, mac is less suseptible to
viruses, that this will change with the introduction of its intel
processors.
6. I think a primary argument was that there wouldn't be as much support
for mac as for windows should the system need repair since 90 percent of
blind
people use the latter.
Of course, I was able to answer to all 6 of the above, but you see, the
organization of my department is different from others. It is not a
simple one on one counselor student relationship. Since my counselor
feels that she has insuficient knowledge in the world of technology, she
has hired a separate person, Steve Clark, to handle that. She places her
undying trust in Mr. Clark, and blindly follows his advice. I think that
their main point (aside from number 6) is that they think that there will
be programs that only run on windows XP with JAWS, and that I will be out
of luck with my Mac should I need one of those for a certain class.
Okay, so here is my favor.
If I can prove that Mac may support XP too, then I might have a stronger
argument. So, is there anyone on this list who has tried JAWS with XP on
their Mac? If not, could someone give it a try. I couldn't immagine
that you would have to buy the program, just download the 40 minute demo
off the net, and try that. Thanks for any help I may receive.
